The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-12
THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

DR.. t. c. S. Berry has sold his residence
on Water street in Houlton to A. l.. Lum-
bert, Esq. 1t is the Doctors intention to re-
move to Riverside, Cal.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The fall term of the Pennell Institute at
Gray will begin August 10Th. Lee d. Hunt,
A. b., prlncipal Misses Emma S. Bickford
and Ida A. Brown, assistant.
The Corn Canning Company of Gray have
completri all the buildings they require in
their business for the present season. The
OH the spot ready for business. A number
of men are employed making cans. They
are doing quite an extensive business.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The second reunion of the Franklin Vet
eran Association will be held in Phillips
Tuesday and Wednesday, ADJUST 30th and
S ,,l;yi inst. The location for the encampment
Kennedy has chosen the following staff ::
Chief of staff, James Morrison, Phillips;
surgeon, DR.. Z. S. johnson, Pennington;
quartermaster, Lewis Prescott, Phillips;
Commissary, A: D.. Russell, Weld: Adju-
tant, +. Gerry, Bennington; aids, G. z. Hig-
gins, Strong; William True, Phillips.
There is talk of organizing in Phillips the
Variety Veneer Company. N. +. Ranger,
of Andover, Me-, is at the head of the enter
prise.
Work is now being rapidly pushed on the
new wing of the Pennington Normal School.
The addition, which takes the place of the
old wooden wing is IS feet on Academy
street, by So feet wide, with a covered en-
trance on Academy street. On the lower
floor are two large recitation rooms, fine
room for the model school, and separate
clothes and toilet rooms for the members of
the Normal School, and also for the BOYS
and girls of the model School. The second
story will have the laboratory, teachers
room and library, the principals office, one
study and recitation room, and one reclta-
ton room: Ihere VIII also be cosy read
ing room in the east end of the corridor. The
fall term will commence Tuesday, Oct 4th.
The leg of Joseph Theunchee, an employee
on Preston's work train, was broken at
North jay, Wednesday afternoon, by an
iron rail falling on it. Both bones of mis-
left leg were severed between the knee and
ankle. Theunchee is a young Frencnman
and lives at Lewiston.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The naval hospital is now going IN ON
Widows Island. The cellar is 80 feet long
by 80 feet wide, and is excayated from sol
id ledge.
At the Merrick Thread Company's mill,
Egypt, over one million feet of spool stock
has been manufactured this spring, says the
Ellswort American. Since the Goth of June,
TINS mill has been saving out long and short
lumber; the pond and stream are full of it.
and win keep the mill at work until it freezes
up this fall.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Drs. Croker and Ferguson of Augusta
have opened an Office in Hallowell
the old North brick schoolhouse at Water
vile has been completely torn down and re-
moved, and the foundation for the new
grammar school begun.
The Hallowell Water Company are to
build a reservoir near the city farm that will
furnish a much larger and better supply
than heretofore.
The corn canning factory on Governor
Bodwell's farm in Halowell is fast nearing
completion and the machinery will soon be
put in. Twelve carloads of cases and cans
have been received. The corn fields are
looking well.
James v and Herbert Welch have opened
fish market in Sanborn block. on Union
street, in Hallowell.
AT the request of the owners Of the Hal
lowell cotton mill, who believe the tax
assessed upon their property to be too high,